An unexpected gesture surprised Pope Leo during a meeting with the faithful. The protagonist of the scene was a devotee who, ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the ...

The last three pontiffs each chose very different paths between Rome and home.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.

Vice President JD Vance attended Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The trip could set the tone for the Trump administration's ...

The US State Department says on its website that it may “actively review” the citizenship status of Americans who “serve as a ...

“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...

Popes — they're just like us? Not exactly, but you wouldn't know that by the American fanfare surrounding the newly minted ...